Connecticut western news., 1887-06-15
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

John Kalhua, who boarded at tho Sailors Home in Boston, was found dead in the street. Thero Is some mystery connected with the af- fair and Elmer Olsen has been arrested on suspicion of murdering him.
 Four troops of cavalry have started from Capt. Lawton. They will endeavor to head off the hostile Indians in the Patagonia Moun- tains to prevent their getting into Mexico.
 The German Lutherans at Bridgeport, O., laid the corner stone of new church ediice, depositing beneath it large number of valu- able coins. During the night thieves tore away the masonry and stole the money.
 The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Con- pany, of Boston, observed the 249th anniver- sary of it's organization.
 The New Haven Board of Aldermen have before them five offers for the Derby Railroad, ranging from s175, 900 to S3OO,0
 There has not been heavy shower in the vicinity of Fort Dodge, Kansas, for fifteen months, and crops are not in promising con- dition.
 Mrs. Catharine Krantz is on trial at York vile, H., for poisoning her former husband, Frederick Shoger, in order that she might marry Krantz, who boarded with them.
 The Chicago and Grand Trunk Railroad persists in selling tickets to commercial travel fers at reduced rates and claims that the Inter- State law does not cover the case.
 Engineer Lyons of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was fatally injured by a collis- ion of freight trains at Shelby, O. The dam age to property was SIS, 900.
 Supreme Court Judge William Murray died suddenly of apoplexy at Delhi, Ky.
 R. S. Fulton, Independent, has been re- elected Mayor of Galveston, Tex. There were four candidates.
 Lewis P. Yonkers, of Philadelphia, was sheld up' on a prominent thoroughfare of that city by two highwaymen, who covered him with revolvers while they relieved him of his watch and pocketbook.
 The negro who attempted to assassinate
 Mrs. Park, at Clarendon, Ark, has been lynched.
 During a riot among railroad laborers one of whom will die. James Perkins was drowned while attempt ing to swim across the Okaw River near Van dilia, III.
 Charles Adams of Philadelphia, aged 75, died suddenly of apoplexy at the railway sta tion in Springfield, Mass, as he was about to take the train for home.
 Six half-starved Hebrews have arrived in Syracuse from Brockville, Ont. They are un- able to speak English. Through an interpre- ter they told how they had been the dupes of 8 contractor, who hired 7S of them in New
 York to work on railroad which was being constructed. They say that after working two weeks they uemanueu tne1r pay, Wnlcn Wds re- fused. Sixty of them accordingly left and a half dozen made their way to Syracuse, under the weight of heavy packs, in seven days. A grand council of the several Indian na- tions is now in session at Eufaula, I. T. An unfortunate wool dresser was boiled alive by falling into the grease extracting vat
 he was filling at Wabash, Ind. Art in Boston is said to be getting so high
 as to abash modest eyes, and the latest freak of some of it's devotees has resulted in prom inent photographers arrest -Brueners wholesale drug house and Ma thans clothing es establishment at Pueblo, Col, , were burned. Loss S60, 900. -Anashacio Cura, the Yaqui chief who
 served under the famous Cajeme in the late | Yaqui war, is at Benson, Arizona, in shackles, l en route to Guaymas. He was captured in Tucson, and was surrendered to the Mexicans on requisition from the Governor of Arizona. He is charged with murder. Cura will be shot when he reaches Guaymas. Mayor Abbott of Lowell, Mass, has re. ceived letter from Mir. Gladstone acknowl l edging receipt of the resolutions adopted by the recent mass meeting in that city. John Conlcy, who murdered Mrs. Stod | dard at Bracevile, H., cut his throat with q
 piece of glass in his cell at the Morris, H.. jai | and will probably die. While John Strickland and his wife were | rowing in the Mississippi River opposite Full
 ton, Tenn, they were both shot and killed by | Sam Hays, a negro, who mistook the woman | for his mistress.
 MT. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, was stricken with paralysis, and has lost the use ot
 his right side.
 | The loser in litigation over tree claim | in Dakota shot and killed three of the oppos | ing parties and himself after decision had beer
 rendered against him.